Show Fingerprinting Discloses LQ Lost Utahn's Jj Wal Wanderings ering I Mother Brings Son Victim of to toFile toFile toFile File Records in Telegram Bureau Buried in local police department files Is the strange story of a missing missing miss miss- in ing man an amnesia victim who disappeared November 1 I 1931 and after alter two years wandered back home again The Thc last chapter of this story was written Wednesday when the man I and his mother appeared at al The Telegram office oHice to 10 be fingerprinted I because as the mother said I OIL 11 cant can't bear to think of or the same thing happening again If my bo boy had been been- fingerprinted before he disappeared disappeared dis dis- dis appeared he would have been back home shortly and saved me man many heartaches The stor story is this On November 1 1 1931 a young man disappeared from home His mother appealed to police fo raid On November November No No- vember 23 1931 a man giving the same name answering the description tion of the missing man perfectly and with wilh similar handwriting was picked up by police of El EI Centro Cal Call But El Centro police didn't yet know of the other youths youth's disappear ance The man In El EI Centra Wa was fin I and of his handwriting hand writing taken and he was released to disappear After El Centro Centre police received circulars cir dr- cul on the missing Salt Sail Lake Cit City youth routh they communicated with sith local police Police and the mother molher were convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced it was her son But Bul definite proof could not nol b be obtained because tier her ler son was never fingerprinted It was learned later that thal the man in California was not net the missing Utahn One year ear later a young man wandered wandered wandered wan wan- dered Into a n sma small Texas town It was apparent he was an amnesia victim His first name with that of the missing Salt Lake Lale City youth out 1 His description JUon fitted filled perfectly But before belore local police and his mother molher could arrange transportation to lo this city cily the youth wandered of off again Another year passed Chance brought the wandering youth to a near by Utah Ulah cil city where a friend recognized him He was taken talen home Wednesday the youth and and his mother molher came to The Telegram finger finser print bureau which Is conducted free 1 of charge for all persons in Salt Lake City who ho wish t. t to protect themselves themselves' b by recording their fingerprints s. s When I read of The Telegram fingerprint fingerprint fingerprint fin fin- I bureau the mother molher said I 1 determined tha that my son in fact my whole family would be bc finger finger- printed Never again will willI I take the chance that one of ol my loved ones will disappear and wander unidentified homeless and friendless Universal fingerprinting advocated by J. J Edgar Hoover chief of the division division divi divi- sion of investigation of the United States Slates department of ot justice will save other Salt SaIl Lake City citizens from rom the fate that befell one man map |